7/4/09 - Happy Birthday Jade!

Jade is officially 5 years old today! Oh, how she has waited for this moment!

She is our little princess, with a tender heart, and a beautiful smile. She is so much fun to be around and loves to be silly. She feels things very deeply and is a sensitive soul. She adores her sisters and they adore her too. What a blessing she is in our lives! Happy birthday sweet Jade! We love you so much!

Princess Jade at her princess party yesterday.

Princess Brinley

Princess Mylee.

To start the party off Uncle Dennis "announced" the arrival of all our royal guests, finishing with the guest of honor..(they also got their faces painted by the incredibly talented Dani, thanks!)

Then he switched into dragon mode so the knights could slay the dragon...

We were all so impressed with their bravery....and as you can see so were they...

Princess Jade with her castle cake...

All of our royal guests (Sorry about the wide open mouth Stacy, it's the only one I had, he sure was having fun, lol!)

Present time with some help from princess Taylor...

Ending with the "big one" from mom and dad, a barbie scooter! No more borrowing the scooter from her sis! The question of the day came from Jade as I was fixing her hair and she was in full princess mode. She asked thoughtfully "mommy, do princesses pick their noses?" I thought about it and said "no, probably not." She quietly slipped away and got a tissue...and I got a good chuckle while she was gone.

The girls on 4th of July...before the BBQ

It was such a fun day, we had a blast. Lots of wonderful family and friends were over. It was lovely to be able to actually have people over, Brinley's counts are doing great for now, so we went all out! A little slip-n-slide...

followed by some volleyball...

finishing up with fireworks. It was really a wonderful day, I love being surrounded by people I love! Happy 4th of July and thank you to all of those serving in our military, we honor you today! What a great country we live in.